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Siloam Tunnel Inscription

The Siloam Tunnel Inscription details the construction of the tunnel that Hezekiah built in the late eighth century B.C.E to supply water from outside the city walls of Jerusalem in the event of Sennacherib’s siege in 701 BCE. The text is written in the Hebrew language using the Old Hebrew script

The Siloam Tunnel Inscription describes how residents of Jerusalem thousands of years ago undertook a project that would bring water from a source outside the city walls into the city.

Before the Common Era; a notation used in place of B.C. ("before Christ") for years before the current calendar era.

A West Semitic language, in which most of the Hebrew Bible is written except for parts of Daniel and Ezra. Hebrew is regarded as the spoken language of ancient Israel but is largely replaced by Aramaic in the Persian period.

The earliest attested stage of the Hebrew language, which largely comes from inscriptional evidence from the early Iron Age.

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